Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards
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...We say little about vulnerability in this paper, but it has been and should remain an important concept in hazard management (e.g., Cutter et al. 2003, 2006)....
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...Hazard risk is neither randomly nor evenly distributed (Cutter et al. 2003)....
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...Societies do not allocate environmental risk equally, often making the poorest communities the weakest links in hazard mitigation (Cutter et al. 2003; Godschalk 2003; Tobin and Whiteford 2002)....
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3,119 citations
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...Few researchers have attempted to combine all the factors that contribute to vulnerability, let alone measure them empirically (Cutter et al., 2003)....
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...Cutter et al.’s Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) is perhaps the most well-known and widespread example (Cutter et al. 2003)....
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...’s Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) is perhaps the most well-known and widespread example (Cutter et al. 2003)....
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...African Americans; Native Americans; and populations of Asian, Pacific Islander, or Hispanic origin are correlated with higher vulnerability rates (Cutter et al. 2003; Elliot and Pais 2006)....
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...Multi-unit housing in densely populated urban areas also poses a heightened risk for tenants (Cutter et al. 2003)....
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...…(comprising race, ethnicity, and Englishlanguage proficiency variables): The social and economic marginalization of certain racial and ethnic groups, including real estate discrimination, has rendered these populations more vulnerable at all stages of disaster (Morrow 1999; Cutter et al. 2003)....
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...The poor are less likely to have the income or assets needed to prepare for a possible disaster or to recover after a disaster (Morrow 1999; Cutter et al. 2003)....
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...Children and elders are the most vulnerable groups in disaster events (Ngo 2001; Cutter et al. 2003:251)....
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...…and suffer damage and loss when impacted by single or compound hazard events (UNDRO 1980; Timmerman 1981; Maskrey 1984; Cardona 1986, 1990; Liverman 1990; Cannon 1994, 2006; Blaikie et al. 1996; UNISDR 2004, 2009; Birkmann 2006a, b, c; Cutter et al. 2003; Cutter and Finch 2008; Cutter et al. 2008)....
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...Vulnerability refers to the propensity of exposed elements such as physical or capital assets, as well as human beings and their livelihoods, to experience harm and suffer damage and loss when impacted by single or compound hazard events (UNDRO 1980; Timmerman 1981; Maskrey 1984; Cardona 1986, 1990; Liverman 1990; Cannon 1994, 2006; Blaikie et al. 1996; UNISDR 2004, 2009; Birkmann 2006a, b, c; Cutter et al. 2003; Cutter and Finch 2008; Cutter et al. 2008)....
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